Coffee-percolator.



Patented lan. I, |90I.

R. B. LAMB.

` COFFEE PERCOLATOR.

(Application led Feb. 26, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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RESTORE B. LAMB, OF MOUNT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM S. SCULL & CO.

CO FFEE-PERCO LATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,234, dated January 1, 1901.

Application iled February 26,1900. Serial No. 6 ,458. (N o model.)

To @ZZ whom t mln/y concern.-

Beit known that I, REsToRE B. LAMB,a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Holly, in the county of Burlington, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coffee-Percolators,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a percolator fora 1o coffee-pot composed of a frame and a sack, said frame being adapted to be stood within a coffee-pot on the bottom thereof and has its frame constructed of skeleton form, with means for sustaining a sack therefrom.

Figure l represents a perspective View of a percolator embodying my invention, together with a portion of a coffee-pot within which the percolator is placed. Fig. 2 represents a a Vertical section of a detached portion.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a percolator formed of a body composed of the columns B and the rings or bands C at the z5 ends thereof and the sack or bag D, which occupies the upper portion of the device and is formed of a suitable fabric whose upper end is turned over the adjacent band C and stitched or otherwise secured to the contigu- 3o ous side of the sack.

The operation is as follows: The percolator is stood within a coffee-pot and so sustained in an upright position by its lower band C as a foot resting on the bottom of the coffee-pot.

The ground coffee is placed in the sack D, and as the same is saturated with the water in the pot the fluid coffee percolates through said sack and so enters the coiee-pot, While the grounds remain in the sack.

It will be seen that the device is of a light, simple, and inexpensive nature and requires no means of suspending or fastening, owing to its ability to rest upon the bottom of the codec-pot. Its frame is of skeleton form, so as to occupy but a small space in the interior of the coee-pot, and it may be readily removed and overturned to remove the grounds, and the sack may be turned inside out and so easily washed. The sack is disposed within the columns B, so that the latter do not pass through the walls thereof and puncture the same, and said columns sustain the sack in a lateral direction. Both bands are similar in construction or matched, so that when the parts are assembled the sack may be applied to either band; but, as is evident when the device is in use, the sack is at the top or upper end of the device, as shown in the drawings, while the lower band serves to support the device on the bottom of the pot, the open form of said band and the separated columns below the sack occupying but little room in said pot. Said lower band being unobstructed also may be grasped as a handle during the overturning of the sack for emptying and cleansing. The band C is provided with a rounded bead or flange E, over which the fabric of the sack is turned, so as to pre- Vent cutting of the top bend of the sack, as shown in Fig. 2, while at the same time the bead of the band that rests on the bottom of the pot adds to the efficiency of the base of the device in that it strengthens the same, obviates a cut edge, and forms a uniform, broad, and sti surface, which prevents tilting or overturning of the device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A percolator consisting of a plurality of columns, bands on the head and base ends thereof forming a skeleton frame, beads on said bands respectively at the top and bottom thereof, and a sack at the upper end of said frame suspended from the head-band over the bead thereof, said bands being matched.

2. A percolator consisting of a skeleton frame formed of a plurality of columns,bands on the head and base of said columns, rounded beads on the outer edges of said bands and a sack at the upper part of said frame suspended from the head-band thereof over the bead thereof, said bands being matched.

RESTORE B. LAMB.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. CANER WIEDERSHEIM. 

